Combustion device.



-G. E. BROWN.

COMBUSTION DEVICE. APPLICATION FILEDNOV.11,1918.

Patented Mar. 24, 191i Inventor,

y I I V I Attorneys.

CARL ERNEST BROWN, COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR FETCH TO DELTON I. HOCH, OF

IBELLEVUE, OHIO.

COMBUSTION DEVICE.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2-1, 1914.

Application filed November 11. 1913. Serial No. 800.355.

To alt whom it may concern Be it known that I. Cant. E. citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and use ful Combustion Device, ot'uvhich the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a" combustion device adapted to be placed in a stove or like structure, for the purpose of enabling the stove to use a liquid or gaseous fuel.

a heating of the burner The invention aims to provide novel means for controlling the air supply to the conical hoods of the structure, and to provide novel means for initially receiving a charge of oil from the burner tube, to effect tube.

It is Within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of, devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

lVith the above and other objects in view Which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the. combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made Within the scope of What is claimed Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows the invention in side elevation, parts being broken away; Fig. is a top plan; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, parts being omitted; -t is a cross section on the line 1- 1 of Fig. 2, parts being omitted.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a supporting structure denoted generally by the numeral 1, the supporting structure 1 including a box-like easing 2 which is open at the bottom the upper end of the casing 2 being closed by a lid 3 having a depending flange 4 which surrounds the outside of the casing 2. The lid 3is equipped adjacent its ends With pyramidal hoods 5. Below the hoods 5, the lid 3is open, so that air may enter the bottom of the casing 2 and pass upwardly through the conical hoods 5.

The lid'3 provided is between the pyrami dal hoods 5 with parallel, longitudinally 'extended ribs 6. In the adjacent slant faces Brown, a

I tracted from the hoods 5. By a proper ina- 110.

of the conical hoods 5 ,transvcrse slots 8 are formed. close to the upper surface of the lid 3 as will be understood best from Fig. 1. lYotches 7 communicate with the slots 8 and in the remote slant faces of the hoods 5 openings 9 are formed, the openings 9 being alined with the notches i A pair of trays 10 is mounted to slide on the lid 2 between the guide ribs (3, each tray 10 being provided with an upstanding marginal flange 11. Rods 12 or other controh ling means are united with the trays 10, one rod being received in a guide 14 which depends from the lid 3. The rods 12 are extended outside of the casing so that the trays 10 may be slid to and fro from a point outside of the stove in which the devic' herein disclosed is mounted.

Fixed to and upstanding from the lid 3 is an arched support 1.? receiving the upper arm 16 of a burner pipe 17, the lower arm 1801? which passes through the openings F) and 7 in the hoods 5. burner pipe and located in vertical aline ment with the axes of the pyramidal hoods 5 are openings 19. Spreaders 20 are secured to the arm 16 of the burner pipe, above the smaller ends of the hoods 5, the spreaders 20 preferably being fashioned from sheet metal and being provided with integrally formed yieldable cars 21 which may be bent upwardly around the arm 16 ot the burner pipe to hold the Spreaders in place.

The practical operation of the structure is as follows: By means of the rods 12, the trays 10 are slid in opposite directions until the trays enter the pyramidal hoods 5 and are located below the openings 19 in the arm 18 of the pipe. By this operation, the air supply to the hoods 5 is practically cut oil. Asbestos, ashes or the like may be placed in the trays 10. A quantity of oil may be permitted to trickle out of the arm 18 of the pipe through the openings 19 and this oil is received in the trays. The oil in the trays is then ignited, the trays being manipulated by the rods 12 so as to lie at the center of the casing. By this operation. the arm 18 of the pipe is heated sufticiently, and the oil therein is turned into gas, a flame being ignited at each of the openings 19. Whchdhe arin'lS of the .pipe is heated sufliciently in the manner herbinbefore described. the trays 10 are moved toward each other and are re- In the arm 18 of the nipulation'of the trays 10, when the'inner ends of the same are brought into abutment, the outer or remote ends of the trays will be lined up with the slots 8 and constitute closures therefor.

As \vill be understood readily, after the operation above described has taken place, the flame burning at the opening 19 will pass out through the top of the hood 5 and be deflected by the spreader 20.

It is to be observed that the trays 10 cXer cise a double function. In the first place, they constitute fuel receiving elements adapted 'to effect an initial heating of the arm 18 of the pipe, and, secondly, they serve as controlling valves which regulate the supply of air passing through the hoods 5.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is I 1. In a device of the class described, a supporting structure including a hood; a burner located in the hood; and a single fuel holding tray slidable onthe supporting structure into and out of the hood and constituting a cut off valve for the hood, the tray having an upstanding flange acting as a fuel retainer.

' stituting also a cut off valve 2. In a device of the class described, a supporting structure including spaced hoods provided adjacent their lower ends and upon their adjacent sides with transverse openings; fuel holding trays mounted to slide upon the supporting structure, intoand out of the openings, each tray constituting a cut off valve for one hood; means forinoving the trays individually, and a burner in oath hood.

3. In a device of. the class described, a supporting structure including spaced hoods;

' uide ribs extended between the hoods; trays i nounted to slide upon the supporting structure between the guide ribs and movable into and outof the hoods; and means for controlling the trays individually each tray holding element and conconstituting a fuel for one hood.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL ERNEST BROWN.

WVitnesses H. J. Coon, W'. E. Knssnnnmo. 

